TONY JOHANSSON APPOINTED AS MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TAMRO SWEDEN RETAIL ORGANIZATION

Tony Johansson (46), has been appointed as the Managing Director of Tamro Sweden retail organization and a member of the Tamro Group Nordic Management Team. Located in Stockholm he will be responsible for Tamro Sweden retail business development and management. He will report to Tamro Group President & CEO Juha Koponen. Johansson has extensive experience in retail business. He comes to Tamro from Diplom-IS where he has been the Managing Director since 2007. Before that he has worked over 24 years at Shell Sweden in various sales management positions, the latest being the Retail Manager of the Shell Swedish operations. “I warmly welcome Tony Johansson to Tamro Sweden. He has impressive retail business knowledge and sales leadership experience which will strenghten our talented Swedish team. This is an interesting time to join Tamro with all the changes happening in the Swedish pharmacy markets. I’m convinced that together we can develop our business operations succesfully”, says Juha Koponen. Johansson will take over his new position in December 2009. For further information, please contact Juha Koponen, Managing Director, Tamro Group tel. +358 400 507 307 Terhi Kivinen, Director, Communications and Corporate Responsibility, Tamro Group tel. +358 40 848 4001, terhi.kivinen@tamro.com